Antergos is a modern, elegant and powerful operating system based on Arch Linux. It started life under the name of Cinnarch, combining the Cinnamon desktop with the Arch Linux distribution, but the project has moved on from its original goals and now offers a choice of several desktops, including GNOME 3 (default), Cinnamon, Razor-qt and Xfce. Antergos also provides its own graphical installation program.

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Version: 19.1Rating: 1Date: 2019-01-14Votes: 0

I gave these guys a stellar review when their product fist came out. Not now, try and install an ISO to see for yourself if your curious.

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Version: 18.12Rating: 10Date: 2019-01-11Votes: 4

I've been using LMDE since the 1st version. But today Mint doesn't want to promote this good idea anymore. So I decided to migrate to something else, but what ?
- First I was impressed by Deepin, so I tried Deepin on Debian. Unfortunately this distribution has too many odd applications, and it was a lot of work to replace them by FOSS ones. On the other hand, the freshness of versions was so cool compared with LMDE that I decided to choose a rolling release.
- So I tried Deepin on Manjaro and was very pleased with all my beloved applications right there ! It was working very well for several weeks, when suddenly an upgrade crashed all of it. And it was seriously broken... After some efforts and forum help, I resigned and decided to look somewhere else.
- Finally I discovered AntergOS, matching perfectly my wish : rolling release, Deepin, FOSS applications. I'm still playing with it, without failure after many updates : this distribution is rock-solid, up-to-date and fast.

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Version: 18.12Rating: 9Date: 2019-01-02Votes: 3

I have tried Antergos twice, first around 2016/17, and again now with iso version 18.12.
Excellent delivery of the project’s core desktop (Gnome). It’s a question of letting, from the live system, the installer check for updates, choosing the right specifications (e.g. printing, LibreOffice, access to the AUR) and rebooting after the install is finished. Responsiveness and stability of the installed Gnome system are second to none, perhaps even better than Fedora Gnome. For a few little queries I found that the answers were already provided in the forums, where the Antergos developers offer sensible pointers to / make good use of the abundance of material to be found in the Arch wiki. In short: my experience with a basic Gnome system has been excellent. Out of the box, I find this the prettiest Gnome desktop I have ever seen (they use Numix Frost; packages which are hard to get by outside the realm of Antergos/Arch).
However, things are less bright outside the confines of a basic Gnome system, and that’s where the project needs to improve. Antergos offers to install an incredible number of desktops and window managers from a single live system iso. However, when trying out of curiosity some of the more advanced options, not all of them were equally good: KDE and XFCE worked, but I found them to be nothing special (e.g. in KDE the graphical updater / software installer looked out of place, since it kept its Gnome theming, sad that such a basic piece of software is so neglected in one of the key desktops); the Deepin option was an epic fail, it left me with an unbootable system. Also, and more importantly, I’d definitely advise against trying to let the installer encrypt the system. I tried twice, and got an unbootable system; it would appear that the installer failed to produce an ext4 partition for root.
In conclusion: excellent for a non-encrypted, basic Gnome system; however, for anything more advanced I’d stick with Fedora.